You know when the end of a song so beautiful it makes you float away? Sometimes it makes you cry because life is sad and ugly and lonely and beautiful and finite and wrong and right and all things inbetween? The second half of this song by Deerhunter is like that.
I've seen the band Deerhunter live many times, and push comes to shove, they are my favorite rock band of the past couple of decades. The last time I saw them was on February 27, 2019 at Brooklyn Steel, a venue that I had never been to before that night. The music blog We All Want Someone to Shout For posted some super nice images of that night here. Their discography is long and deep and massive, and I've written them about them before here at Joy of Speed many times, including here and here and here and here.
Like everything they have ever released, their last album, Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared (2019), was also quite good and concluded with a beautiful track "Nocturne," which is, perhaps, an allusion to Chopin's "Nocturnes," the short 21 piano pieces that Chopin is most famously known for. Coincidentally or not, bits and pieces of Chopin's "Nocturnes" feature in the movie Deer Hunter (1978).
Anyway, the track "Nocturne" is a real treat, especially its last half, specializing in the kind of instrumental minimalist repetitious blissout that releases you from the song, and shoots you into outer space.
First a picture from the show:
Second, the song "Nocturne":
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